TEWKSBURY — How essential was competing within the state particular person all-around championship on Monday at Tewksbury for Masconomet’s Bella Misiura? She completed a contest in Texas on Sunday and hopped on a red-eye to get again to be on the mats for the Chieftains.
Needless to say, the hassle was all value it for Misiura after she placed on a medical efficiency. Recording the perfect rating on three of the 4 equipment, Misiura cruised to an almost half-point victory over Westford Academy’s Maggie Murphy.
“There was lots of adrenaline and excitement,” joked Misiura about what received her by means of the competitors.
Misiura set the tone for her day with a 9.750 on the vault in an eerily comparable effort to a 12 months in the past when she caught two vaults to provide the Chieftains a group state title.
Murphy’s opening effort of 9.700 had her proper within the combine early together with Marblehead/Swampscott’s Maeve McIlroy and Danvers’ Kaylee Westcott.
It was within the second rotation the place Misiura, Murphy and McIlroy started to open some respiration room on the sphere.
Central Catholic’s Sophie Tressler, who completed seventh total, had the perfect rating on the bars however Misiura’s 9.625 effort bested each McIlroy and Murphy to provide her a two-tenths of a degree lead on the halfway level.
The beam can be the undoing of a number of rivals on Monday, together with Westcott as a fall took her out of the primary place working. Misiura, nonetheless, was rock stable as her 9.650 was the perfect of the day and helped her open up her lead by one other .125 over Murphy heading the ground train.
McIlroy, who got here within the ultimate rotation in third place, was first up and scored a stable 9.650. That set the stage for Misiura to salt away the title and she or he did simply that with an almost flawless routine that scored 9.800 and gave her an insurmountable lead.
Behind Misiura, Murphy and McIlroy it was Westcott ending fourth and Norton’s Ella DeFeo in fifth forward of Central Catholic’s Riley Salerno.
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